Finance Watch: 2020 Cell And Gene Therapy Funding Already Bests 2019

Private Company Edition: The Alliance for Regenerative Medicine’s half-year report shows the sector raised $10.7bn in the first half of 2020 versus $9.8bn raised in all of 2019. Also, DCVC Bio closed a $350m fund, new incubator opportunities and VC mega-deals for Dyne and Atomwise.

Finance Watch

Cell and gene therapy companies raised $10.7bn during the first half of 2020, exceeding the $9.8bn full-year total that the regenerative medicine sector raised in 2019. Venture capital financings in the first half of this year totaled $3.03bn, which puts cell and gene therapy VC deals on track to beat 2019’s full-year total of $4.26bn, according to the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine’s (ARM’s) Global Regenerative Medicine and Advanced Therapy Report for the first half of 2020.

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